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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/05/2025
Higher education in the U.S. is the world leader, with many strengths. But also major problems, chief among them the price tag. It’s important to get the word out that banning foreign students (and almost all of Trump’s actions) will cause prices to rise. Higher parent bills and more student debt.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
If you’re not worried about Russ Vought you’re not paying attention www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term
Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New, from me: Elon Musk, a man who runs an imaginary government department, accused a real government employee of having a fake job. He is wrong about this, and other claims about what he can do to eliminate regulations and cut spending. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
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Fake Jobs and Fake Facts
By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
👇🎯 No one ever accuses conservatives of “lacking empathy” or tells them they need to “reach out” to urban liberals, or uses whatever the right-wing equivalent of “the faculty lounge” epithet is, etc. Only Democrats & liberals have agency & are held to these standards. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/11/2024
low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This amazing summary by @niedermeyer.io is really worth your time. Similarity with movie 'The Apprentice': Takes a deranged and noxious current figure and gives some backstory on how the person turned out that way. In both stories, the traits of the father play a major role.
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Beth Caskie @caskiebeth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I did find this helpful, thank you @jamellebouie.net
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Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read. (Gift Article)
Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...
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Nancy Mace, now targeting transgender lawmaker, called herself ‘pro-transgender rights’ in 2023 | CNN Politics
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace as recently as last year called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and preferre...
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reality for Musk/DOGE: “While federal spending has grown sharply and regulation is arguably in need of correction, there is no such long-run trend in federal employment, and firing lots of federal workers would not in itself result in much savings or deregulation.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Who Are These Federal Workers Trump Wants to Fire?
The civilian workforce has barely grown in recent decades, is scattered across the country and accounts for a small fraction of US spending.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is a terrific, fact-based piece with nice graphs providing basic details about the federal workforce.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"Largely." Rule Number One from Timothy Snyder: 'Do Not Obey in Advance.'
Headline 'Trump health picks largely untested in fighting disease outbreaks.'
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New from me: I wrote about the reports that Russ Vought is going back to OMB and how inevitable it is he would violate the law to implement the ridiculous cuts that DOGE recommends
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Opinion | Russell Vought violated the law for Trump before. He'll do it again.
The once and reportedly future head of the Office of Management and Budget is poised to choke off millions of dollars in appointed funds.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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lifeuniverse42.bsky.social @lifeuniverse42.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How An Imported State Champion Blew Up Virginia High School Football - defector.com/how-an-impor...
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Defector @defector.com · 19/11/2024
"Basically, the best team in the state was invited to just change its address and uniforms and get back to whipping everybody's asses." defector.com/how-an-impor...
"We need to fix it now, on the front end," Mateo Dunne, an elected member of the Fairfax County School Board told me this summer, shortly after the board ignored his calls for an independent investigation of how a turnkey championship football team arrived in his county. "If not, imagine 10 years from now, what high school sports programs will look like. It's going to create a free-agent market in high school sports. The ramifications of this will be felt for years. Only bad things can come."
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